Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
TIM MINCHINTo dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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